ScottinSoCal 🇺🇦 🕊 🏳‍🌈 @ScottSoCal@computerfairi.es

Yurii Hnatkevych has been a nationalist since he was a child. He used to dream that #Ukraine would become independent from the Soviet Union, but he never thought it would actually happen.

He especially did not believe that he would vote for it himself as a member of parliament.

“I didn't believe it. I'm honestly telling you. None of the deputies believed that they would vote for the Declaration of Independence, and then for Independence itself," he told The #Counteroffensive.

Mastodon, I proudly present to you… the perfect weevil.

I gave up over 83 million followers on Twitter to be on Mastodon full time. Yes, as I'm sure many of you have guessed by now, I am Lady Gaga.

GIG ALERT: Champion guitar player Christie Lenée brings her empowering music and unearthly fingerstyle playing to NYC's storied blues venue The Cutting Room TONIGHT. Even if you're not in town, you're going to want to watch the video here.

https://rainbowrodeomag.com/gig-alert-christie-lenee-cutting-room-nyc-tonight/

#QueerCountry #Americana #AcousticGuitar #Blues #GuitarPlayer #NewYorkCity #nyc

Revenge is sweet.
#antifa #transrights #revenge #transphobia #transcakesofrevenge

Stochastic terrorism is "the public demonization of a person or group resulting in the incitement of a violent act, which is statistically probable but whose specifics cannot be predicted." Donald Trump has been using social media to blast prosecutors, judges, and witnesses, and his followers have answered with calls for violence. If the ex-president is a stochastic terrorist, what should we do in response? https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/donald-trump-stochastic-terrorist-threats

Me, looking at today's 107° forecast.

In many ways, Star Trek was ahead of its time, like in this episode, where they warn about the dangers of Data mining

Are all Autistics autodidacts? Is that just a thing we do?

#AskingAutistics @actuallyautistic
#ActuallyAutistics

Jaysus lads, I know some trans people are well known in public but please don't share their deadnames (especially not if you want to complain about the sharing of deadnames)

It feels like a punch to the stomach if you see your own deadname and ruins your day. Celebrities aren't immune.

Also don't share it even if the trans person is in your eyes a shitty person. You communicate at the same time to other trans people that you don't take them serious

#transgender

Breaking news: Brazil makes homophobia punishable by prison 🗞️

In an almost unanimous vote, the Brazilian High Court has ruled today that homophobia can now be punishable with a prison sentence

This is a huge win for the LGBTQ+ community in Brazil that needs to be celebrated 🇧🇷

The 9-1 vote ruled that homophobic slurs and hate speech are a crime, similar to other forms of hate speech, such as racism.

Non-vaccine measures such as social distancing and wearing face masks have been "unequivocally effective" at preventing the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, according to a major report by the UK's Royal Society https://www.newscientist.com/article/2388929-lockdowns-and-face-masks-really-did-help-to-control-covid-19/

My level of frustration with the need to report the Republican debate — because it’s a legitimate political party in the United States despite the fact that its platform is a gobbledygook of flat-earthing anti-vaxxing anti-science racist misogynist not-even-up-to-the-comedic-stylings-of-the-Church-of-the-Flying-Spaghetti-Monster ramblefuckery — is large

#ThrowbackThursday
Some years back, woke up to my pooch snuggled with IT. Knew my momma cat had captured IT. "IT" was the body of a poor, departed squirrel -- my Godfather "horse head in the bed" moment.

I got the message. Food was served pronto, well, after disposal.

#CatsOfMastodon #DogsOfMastodon
#SquirrelInDisarray (So sorry)

I would like to enjoy mastodon but sadly my feed is dismal….. if you research, post about, or love, and not limited too, #birds #wetlands #gardens #writing #insects #conservation #R or #stats please say and I will follow you!

It's not a culture war. It never was.
#politics